With the launch of our new iPhone app that counts down the days until animated films open, it was a no brainer that we needed to take this opportunity to finally start a website calendar of upcoming films -- a feature we've talked about for years around here!

We may eventually expand it to include more information about the films, but as often as dates and titles change keeping up with any other changes as well could be more trouble that it's worth. Definitely a work in progress. So we're open to adding more data. Maybe bringing in a calendar editor whose only job is keeping up with all the changes would be a good idea.

They had a date a few months back, because I put it on the calendar. But I haven't been able to find any announcement that it was pushed back. Since both of us came up with TBA now I'll go ahead and remove it from the calendar.

But a smart one: For the first time in...how many years?*...Disney finally has a Christmas vacation-week opening all to itself, with no Fox or Sony competition to boot them out of it.
They originally wanted to with Princess & the Frog, but they lost out to Alvin, and we paid the price for both.

(* - Wanted to say "Twelve years", but the rush to put strategically parent-marketable kid films on Christmas Day has only been around since the Treasure Planet mess in '02. The last time Disney opened a movie on Christmas was their nervousness over "Emperor's New Groove", and that was back when you wanted to get rid of a movie by opening it on Christmas so no one would notice..)